Odds and Ends

Watch Over: Before neighborhoood watches and community policing, you had the beat cop like LAPD Officer Larry Pratt walking the streets. ""You would walk and know the people and the shop owners," he said recalling his earlier days Downtown, "You would help out with something small, then go handle a robbery. The day could change in a minute." Rolling Out: Here he is driving away from Parker Center in the last 4 hours of his final shift early Monday afternoon. He's retiring after 37 1/2 years on the force and the younger cops, who consider Pratt the Guru of Command Posts, gave him a police escort into town this morning with a Mobile Command Post Unit leading the way.

To Repeat: Tomorrow, somewhere Downtown, you can expect someone to say: "I didn't know there was a March today." It starts at 10 am at Olympic and Broadway and ends at City Hall's South Lawn. Dash Line A in and out of the Arts District will stop at 10 am. LADOTLATCityofLA.

The Other Walk: Joel Bloom invites everyone to join in this Wednesday's Neighborhood Watch Walk. His current surgery was postponed, so he will be leading "a slower walk." Again, the walkers leave at 6:30 pm from the front of Blooms General Store. Bring a slow dog.

From KW's Files: A female transient, who is a regular "resident" near the Los Angeles River/6th Street Bridge, was "slashed and stabbed" early Saturday morning according to LAPD/AD/SLO/KW. The victim was hospitalized and last report in serious condition and unwilling to identity the assailant.

More Watch: Local TV are using last weeks pursuit in the street of Downtown to illustrate today's Supreme Court ruling that High-Speed Police Tactics OK. The case involving a sheriff's deputy from Georgia had Justice Antonin Scalia rule today that the officer's attempt
to end a high-speed car chase, that left a 19 yo driver quadriplegic, did not violate the Constitution Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizures even if it threatened the lives of
innocent bystanders. LAST ADD: The official line on the vehicle from last weeks pursuit Downtown: 4-26/ /05 Nissan /5TXP813 /5th and Seaton Street/ GTA/159.